Featured Maps
Plan de Paris
1927
Karasz's design and the vivid color printing used for this large--37 x 27 inches---map of Paris are especially unusual and striking. All of the principal avenues of the City are clearly depicted and appear heightened with gold color finish that enhan...
Pictorial Map of Oregon & Washington
1940
A colorful pictorial of these two states highlighting their products and resources. Done to accompany an article on the politics of the Pacific Coast and added as an insert to the March 1940 edition.
Earliest Obtainable Map to Name America
1520
World Map on a Cordiform Projection, Petrus Apianus, 1520 Tipus Orbis Universalis IVXTA Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucci Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elubrat. An. Do. 1520. From: Ionnis Camertis minoritani… e...
Sea Chart of Europe
1621
Sea chart of Europe, Willem Blaeu, ca. 1621 Paskaarte Vertonende alle de Zekusten van Europa. Nieulvez aldus uytgegeven… Separate publication. Copperplate engraving.Oriented with west at the top, this chart covers the area from the northern c...
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
1733
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, Benjamin Franklin, 1733 In: Articles of Agreement made and concluded upon between the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary of Maryland, and the Honourable the proprietarys of Pensilvania, &c. touching the limits ...
The New World
1545
The New World, Pedro de Medina, 1545 Nuevo Mundo, from Arte de Navigar, Valladolid, 1545. Woodcut.Pedro de Medina’s map is one of the few early printed works composed by someone who had actually been to America, having sailed there with He...
China, olim Sinarum
1584
China, Luis Jorgé de Barbuda /Abraham Ortelius, 1584 (West is at the top) Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio… In: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, ...
Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent Thereto
1733
The first large-scale printed map of Colonial North America, the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, and a monument of North American cartography.Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America marks the beginning of a new epoch in...
Nova Orbis Terrarum
1658
Its imperial double-eagle design borrowed from a map made by Georg Braun in 1574, this world map by the German cartographer Philip Eckebrecht was created as a complement to astronomical tables published by Eckebrecht’s friend, Johannes Kepler, fo...
New England
1677
New England, John Foster, 1677 A Map of New England, Being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best Pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the Scituation ...
